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Rime della s. Vittoria Colonna marchesana illust. di Pescara. Con l'aggiunta delle rime...

Rime della s. Vittoria Colonna marchesana illust. di Pescara. Con l'aggiunta delle rime spirituali. Di nuovo ricorrette, per m. Lodovico Dolce.

Venice: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1559.

Price: $3,500.00

Bound in 17th c. vellum, citron label, gilt, to spine. All edges blue. Title lightly toned, text a little loose. Two woodcut headpieces, four woodcut initials in text. Two versions of printer’s phoenix device (title and final leaf).The first edition of Colonna's “Rime” was printed in Parma by Viotto in...

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Beschreibung des im Anfang des Jahrs 1744 erschienenen Cometen nebst einigen darüber...

Beschreibung des im Anfang des Jahrs 1744 erschienenen Cometen nebst einigen darüber angestellten Betrachtungen.

St. Petersburg: Kayserl. Academie derer Wissenschafften, 1744.

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Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (mild soiling, boards slightly bowed.) A wide-margined copy, the text in excellent, crisp condition. Single short marginal worm-trail, occasionally affecting a page number. Edges sprinkled red. Complete with the four folding plates, one of them a mezzotint. Four copies located in North America: NYPL, Adler...

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Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras &...

Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras & en maigre, & la meilleure maniere des ragoûts les plus délicats & les plus à la mode, & toutes sortes de pâtisseries : avec des nouveaux desseins de tables ... [3 volumes].

Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1733 [and], 1730.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines richly tooled in gold, with labels (some wear to extremities, minor defects to leather, corners bumped.) Very nice copies internally, the woodcut plates and text crisp. George Baillie (1664-1738), Scottish politician and parliamentarian, armorial bookplates dated 1724. First published as a single volume in 1691 and...

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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes...

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late fellow of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition.

London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1670.

Price: $8,500.00

Contemporary English calf, upper joint cracked. Complete with the engraved frontispiece. Provenance: Richard Heber, his sale 1834, to Britwell Court; Richard Jennings.This collection of Crashaw’s poetry comprises the third edition (not the second, as the title states) of his “Steps to the Temple” (first 1646), the third edition of “The...

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Opere del Divino Poeta Danthe con svoi Comenti : Recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente in...

Opere del Divino Poeta Danthe con svoi Comenti : Recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente in littera cvrsiva impresse. In bibliotheca S. Bernardini. [With the commentary of Cristoforo Landino.]

Venice: Per Miser Bernardino Stagnino da Trino de monferra, 28 March, 1520.

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Bound in contemporary Italian calfskin, discreetly rebacked, with minor wear. The boards have been ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled in blind with intricate, decorative tools. This copy is in fine condition with only minor blemishes (the occasional marginal smudge, small marginal repair and light soiling to the title, a light...

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Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that...

Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher

London: for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648.

Price: $8,500.00

[Bound with:] Bulwer, John (active 1648-1654) Pathomyotomia or A dissection of the significative muscles of the affections of the minde. Being an essay to a new method of observing the most important movings of the muscles of the head, as they are the neerest and immediate organs of the voluntarie or impetuous...

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Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations...

Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations vpon our humane condition. 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God. 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to him. By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London. The third edition.

London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at the signe of the Black Rauen in the Strand, 1627.

Price: $20,000.00

A beautiful copy bound in its original Oxford binding of full calfskin, ruled in blind. The text is in excellent condition. This is a delightful copy of a book rarely encountered, especially in such fine condition. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jensen (booklabel) to Seven Gables, ca. 1971.“[The ‘Devotions’] present a more vivid...

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Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London....

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $12,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked so discreetly that it is impossible to see where the leather has been joined. The original gilded red morocco spine label is preserved and a double...

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Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London....

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $15,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary tanned sheep, rebacked and recornered, with gold ruling to the boards and spine. The text is on wonderfully fresh condition. The leaves are clean and bright with broad margins...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $16,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, with a discreet repair to the front joint and foot of the spine. The text is in fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $18,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of polished calf, ruled in blind, with only minor wear and abrasions. The text is in very fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after a lost miniature by Hillyard, showing...

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Poems, by J.D. With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own...

Poems, by J.D. With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own hand never before in print

London: Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting, at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley, 1654.

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A very fine copy in contemporary tanned sheep, the boards framed by a double blind rule. The spine is ruled in compartments with a red morocco label, “Dr. Donne’s poems” tooled in gold and with small ornaments. Extremely fresh, within and without, with the faintest of wear to the front...

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An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The Fourth...

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The Fourth Edition, corrected.

London: printed for S. Butler, next Bernard’s-Inn in Holborn. 1721.

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Bound in contemporary calf, the corners, corners and spine repaired, gouge to leather of upper board. A crisp, bright copy with large margins. Some light, neat pencil marks. Insignificant, very light stain to loer margin of a few lvs. Provenance: With the contemporary ownership inscription of Ann Mortlock (unidentified) and...

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Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII....

Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII.

London: printed [by R. Young] for Iohn Smethwick, 1637.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in 19th c. polished, gold-ruled blond calf, with gilt turn-ins and the spine richly tooled in gold, with green morocco labels. Text in fine condition throughout, a.e.g. Complete with engraved t.p. by William Marshall and the first leaf (blank except for sig. mark). "Englands heroicall epistles" and "The legends...

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Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem...

Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem versibus expressum per eumdem. Accessit et ejusdem elegia ad illustriss. principem Carolum card. Lotharingum.

Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1559.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in 19th c. speckled calf, ruled in gold (hinges rubbed, small loss at head of spine.) A fine copy. Small clean tear to blank margin of plate. Printed in Latin and French. Morel’s printer’s device on the title. Attractive ornamental initials. With the oversized woodcut plate of the fictive...

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Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins. Albrecht Dürer

Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins.

Germany: ca. 1496.

Price: $12,000.00

A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...

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Ragionamento sopra il conduttore elettrico Quirinale dell'abate Giuseppe Calandrelli. Giuseppe...

Ragionamento sopra il conduttore elettrico Quirinale dell'abate Giuseppe Calandrelli

Rome: nella stamperia Salomoni, 1789.

Price: $4,500.00

This is a beautiful copy in contemporary red pasteboard with gold floral impressions, and decorative paste-paper pastedowns. The text, printed on thick paper, is in excellent condition. A very fresh copy. The engraved title-page has a vignette of the Quirinale palace in Rome with the lightning conductor installed on its...

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Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad...

Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad soueraygne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande Fraunce, and Irelande, Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. Anno 1559

London: Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, 1559.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine, wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 83) with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial (of Arcas and Callisto?) appears on leaf A2.With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey...

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The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir, 1490?-1546

The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght.

London: [in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti], An. 1546.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco crushed morocco, ruled in gold, a.e.g. The title page is framed by an architectural woodcut border (Mckerrow and Ferguson 30) dated 1534 in the sill. The text is printed in Black Letter. The colophon appears on the verso of the final leaf. Contemporary signature...

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PASQUINO. Enea Vico, Nicolas Beatrizet, attributed artists. Antonio Lafreri, publisher

PASQUINO.

Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550.

Price: $3,750.00

First state. With Lafreri’s excudit: “Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL” at lower right. Watermark “Crossbow with arrow in a circle” similar to Briquet 759. A very good impression, with light surface wear and light marginal soiling. Three early stamps on the verso, two of them from the Kupferstichkabinet Berlin (Lugt...

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Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. ...

Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaqve Pennio inchoatum: Tandem Tho. Movfeti Londinatis opera sumptibusq; maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: Et ad vivum expressis Iconibus supra quingentis illustratum.

London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope, ad insigne Chirothechae, prope regium Excambium, 1634.

Price: $14,000.00

An unusual copy, bound in 17th c. vellum, inter-leaved throughout with blanks. Light dampstains at various points, occasionally darker but never very offensive. Three leaves soiled. Binding with small losses at head, corners bumped, minor wear. The interleaving shows that this copy was clearly meant for a naturalist. Illustrated with...

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Chiliades Adagiorvm: Opvs Integrum Et Perfectum D. Erasmi Roterodami, locupletatum & recognitum,...

Chiliades Adagiorvm: Opvs Integrum Et Perfectum D. Erasmi Roterodami, locupletatum & recognitum, quem admodum in extremis conatibus autori uisum est ; Acceßit indicibus antiquis in hac impreßione nouus & tertius ...

Cologne: Ex officina Ioannis Gymnici, 1540.

Price: $6,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards, tooled in blind. The clasps lacking, some scuffing and soiling to lower board, otherwise a very nice binding. Internally a beautiful copy with the lightest of occasional soiling. Gyminus’ fine hippocamp device appears on the title.A very rare...

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Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis....

Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis. Praemittuntur Ludus L. Annei Senec[ae], de morte Claudii, cu[m] scholiis Beati Rhenani. Synesius Cyrenen[sis] de Laudibus caluitii. Adduntur Martini Dorpii theologi ad Erasmum epistola et Erasmi ad eandem responsio apologetica.

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...

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Moriae Encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitu[m] una cum alijs aliquot...

Moriae Encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitu[m] una cum alijs aliquot libellis, no[n] minus eruditis quam amoenis, quorum omniu[m] titulos proxima pagella loquetur.

Basel: Johannes Froben, 1522.

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A broad-margined copy, bound in seventeenth-century English calfskin, ruled in blind with small blind-tooled ornaments at the corners and an attractive red morocco label, gilt, on the spine. Slight chipping to spine, upper hinges starting. With the 16th c. ownership inscription of William Hunsdon on the title page (a little...

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